Before and Beyond Birmingham: A Conversation with a Legend of the Civil 
Rights Movement.


One of the leaders in the Civil Rights movement, Wyatt Tee Walker, will 
discuss his work in social justice and his purpose-filled life in an 
open forum Thursday, Nov. 3 at 7 p.m. at Virginia Commonwealth University.

The Rev. Dr. Walker served as Martin Luther King's chief of staff and he 
is best known as the architect of Project C, the series of marches, 
sit-ins and boycotts in Birmingham, Ala. in 1963. Those pivotal days in 
Birmingham helped change public opinion that set the stage for passage 
of the Civil Rights Act in 1965.

Walker, born in Massachusetts in 1929 and raised in New Jersey, moved to 
Virginia in 1950 to study at Virginia Union University. As a pastor and 
activist in Petersburg, he staged marches and demonstrations. He later 
became a leader in the Southern Christian Leadership Conference and 
served as Martin Luther King's chief of staff. He also helped organize 
the March on Washington. Walker earned a doctorate in ministry and 
served as the influential pastor at Harlem's Canaan Baptist Church of 
Christ for nearly 40 years. He has devoted his life to social justice, 
including the abolition of apartheid in South Africa.


/The event is free and open to the public and will be held at the 
Virginia Commonwealth University Student Commons
Commonwealth Ballrooms, 907 Floyd Ave. For further information:  (804) 
828-1384.



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Ray Bonis
Archives Coordinator
Special Collections and Archives
James Branch Cabell Library
VCU Libraries
901 Park Avenue
P.O. Box 842033
Richmond, VA 23284-2033
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(804)828-1108
www.library.vcu.edu/jbc/speccoll/




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